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Challenge Your Brain Math & Logic Puzzles (Official Mensa Puzzle Book)

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A great book for those of you who are preparing for a puzzle competition and are looking for an exercise book (as I was when I bought this one). Despite it is only 96 pages, it has a great variety of puzzles, mostly contest types.

There are around 10 to 20 puzzles of each type, and these are:

- Alternate corners
- Battleships (classic, crowded, hexagonal, minesweeper, numerical, ocean view, semicircular)
- Corral
- Deja Vu
- Dominoes (domino hunt)
- Eminent domain
- End View (like ABCD)
- Fences (including big field fences and pentomino fences)
- Hex Loops
- Lighthouses
- Minesweeper
- Number place
- Nurikabe
- Oxtails
- Clouds
- Skyscrapers (only the 'number of buildings' type)
- Snaky tiles
- Spiral galaxies
- Spokes
- Square Roots
- Tents

The level of difficulty is pretty good, at least for the puzzles I tried.
The only drawback is that most of the puzzles are too small, especially the Fences. I've seen books where the puzzles on the answer pages are bigger than these ones. It's not like they are so small that makes it impossible to work them out, but still pretty small. What I'm doing on other books and will on that one too is to scan the puzzles, cut the white spaces and print them back again on larger sheets. This way you are not ruining your book when drawing and erasing and you can print (and solve) certain pages as many times as you like.

Highly recommended.

If you love puzzles, this book is a **must have**! This is hands down the best puzzle book I have ever worked. There is a wide variety of puzzles and they are all unique, not your standard logic problems. Prepare to be challenged, these puzzles are definitely for the puzzle solver at heart! What a great mental workout!

I had added this to my wish list as something of a filler, because my wife had asked for about ten puzzle titles to choose from, and I have to say, this book is amazing. The Amazon description simply doesn't do it justice. If you're looking for a survey of the variety of grid-based puzzles (other than Sudoku, which is almost grudgingly included under its original name of Number Place, and Kakuro, which is absent), this is excellent.

It contains several puzzle types I know and love, and many others I haven't seen before. The book contains nearly 400 puzzles distributed among about 20 genres. Battleships has a heavy presence, with 39 total puzzles across 7 variants (plus 20 Rain Cloud puzzles, a close cousin). Sudoku itself is represented by a mere 21 puzzles, 3 which are 6x6 and 18 which are 9x9 Irregular Sudoku (hence, no standard 9x9 puzzles).

This book is highly recommended.

The puzzle are not too difficult but a little challenging at the same time. It is nice as a hobby or to exercise your mind. It's a good buy!

An excellent book for those that want to get away from the daily rat-race and engulf their mind deep into logic and math. It will take time, but not a moment will be wasted and before you know you will have forget those things that bother us every day and look forward to another puzzle; another page.

It was a great surprise to see the many different types of challenges it provides, and the feeling of completing them is awesome. I'd definitely recommend it. I'm not giving it 5 stars just because I reserve that rating for really, truly, indescribably glorious products.

Hola! Para aquellos que sientan que sus neuronas estan "empastadas", no dejen pasar este libro. Tiene una gran variedad de juegos, y no solo tipo sudoku.

This has challenging puzzles, but their lacking the "fun" and intrigue that some other books contain.